The Paris Review No. 226

Fall 2018

Penelope Lively on the Art of Fiction: “A novel should reflect its society and its circumstances.” Frederick Wiseman on the Art of Documentary: “Before the film is finished, I have to be able to put into words why I have selected each shot and the meaning I attach to the order of the sequences.”

Nonfiction by Mitchell S. Jackson. A portfolio curated by Charlotte Strick, with an essay by Claire Vaye Watkins. And five poems by Max Jacob translated by Elizabeth Bishop with an essay by Rosanna Warren.